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1. The General Prologue
2. The Knight's Tale
3. The Miller's Prologue
4. The Miller's Tale
5. The Reeve's Prologue
6. The Reeve's Tale
7. The Cook's Prologue
8. The Cook's Tale
9. Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale
10. The Man of Law's Tale
11. The Wife of Bath's Prologue
12. The Wife of Bath's Tale
13. The Friar's Prologue
14. The Friar's Tale
15. The Summoner's Prologue
16. The Summoner's Tale
17. The Clerk's Tale
18. Lenvoye de Chaucer
19. Words of the Host
20. The Merchant's Prologue
21. The Merchant's Tale
22. Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale
23. The Squire's Tale
24. The Franklin's Tale
25. The Physician's Tale
26. Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale
27. The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale
28. The Shipman's Tale
29. The Prioress' Tale
30. The Tale of Sir Thopas
31. Here the Host 'stynteth' Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
32. The Tale of Melibeus
33. The Monk's Prologue
34. The Monk's Tale
35. The Nun's Priest's Prologue
36. The Nun's Priest's Tale
37. Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale
38. The Second Nun's Tale
39. The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue
40. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Knight's Tale Folio 26v 4 of 35 folios
There as Mars / hath his souer eigne mansioū
First on the wal / was peynted a forest
In whicħ there dwelleth / neiþ er man ne best
With knotty knarry / barreyne trees olde
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Of stubbes sharpe / and hedous to byholde
In whicħ there ran / a rombel in a swougħ
As though a storme / shulde bresten euer y bougħ
And dounward from an hille / vnder a bent
There stode a temple / of Mars Armypotent
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Wrought al of borned stele / of which þ e entree
Was long and streyt / and gastly for to se
And þ er e ouȝt cam a rage / and swicħ a Corrected from: voisveȝevois veȝe ¶ id est impetus
That it mad al the gate / for to Corrected from: reysresereys rese
The northern ligħ t / in at the dores shone
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For wyndowe on the wal / ne was þ er e none
Thorugħ whicħ men mygħ ten / eny ligħ t discerne
The dore was al / of Athamant et er ne
I clenched Corrected from: ouer twertouer thwertouer thwert/ and endlong
With Iren tougħ / and for to make it strong
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Euer y piller / the temple to sustene
Was tō ne gret of Iren / brigħ t & shene
Of felonye / and al the compassynge
The cruel Ire / red as eny glede
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The pyke purs / and eke the pale drede
The smylere wt þ e knyf / vnder the cloke
The shippen brennyng / wt the blak smoke
The tresoū of the morderyng / in the bedde
The open werre / wt woundes al be bledde
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Conteke with blody knyf / and sharpe manace
Al ful of chidyng / was this sory place
The sleere of hī self / ȝet saugħ I there
His hert blode / hath bathed al his heere
The nail I dreuen / in the shode a nygħ t
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The colde detħ / wt mouth gapyng vp rigħ t
With discomfort / & sory countenaunce
Ȝet saugh I woodnes / laughyng in his rage
Armed / compleynt / ouȝt hees / & Corrected from: fixxx fiersfioutrage
fiers is written over an erasure.ODR
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The careyne in þ e bussħ / wt throte koruen
A / Mƚ / sleyn / and nouȝt of qualme storuen
The teraunt with the pray / by force I raft
The Toun destroied / þ er e was no þ ing I laft
Ȝet saugh I brent / the shippes hoppesteres
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The honte strangelid / with the wylde beres